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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2009
New application to locate liquor stores, recipes
BY JESSE BROWN
jbrown@kansan.com
If you need help perfecting pick-up lines, there's an app for that. If you want to know if you have what it takes to become a psychic, there's an app for that. If you need help finding a liquor store or a fun new drink recipe, thanks to KU alumnus George Franklin, there's now an app for that as well.
Franklin has created an application to help smart phone users with all things alcohol. Franklin, a KU graduate in computer science, created the application called Liquor Run Mobile for phones with android operating systems. The app will soon be available on the iPhone.
Franklin said that the application not only provided information available in a phone book, such as locations of liquor stores within a 10-mile radius, but it also offered extra incentives.
"You can find the closest liquor stores, you can find information about those liquor stores," Franklin said. "If you're in the liquor store, you can find one of thousands of
drink recipes, you can find information about how many calories are in the drink you're going to make."
Franklin works for Tallgrass Labs, a virtual entrepreneur company that got its start in Lawrence. The company is focused on research.
thisyear,
company, formed has no headquarters but employs people throughout the nation to develop applications for smart phones.
Marc Hoffman, Bullhead City, Ariz., senior, serves as the application's one-man marketing team. Liquor stores
"You can find the closest liquor stores, you can find information about those liquor stores."
must pay to have their information show up on the application, and Hoffman's job is to give the stores an incentive to buy into the product. He said that he was almost finished making the rounds pitching the application to Lawrence liquor stores and that he planned to head to Topeka liquor stores to expand the application's use.
"We're trying to make a presence on pretty much every social media
platform." Hoffman said. "My responsibilities, on top of seeking out future clients, have been to kind of increase our audience because the app is for Google Android phones, which is a new operating system and it'll be a huge deal probably about six months from now."
GEORGE FRANKLIN Creator
Android operating systems were developed by Google in 2007. Only five phones available to the public have android operating systems right now, including the T-Mobile G1, Sprint HTC Hero, HTC Magic, T-Mobile
myTouch and Verizon's Droid. The android operating system is supposed to increase the speed of Internet connections.
Hoffman said he hoped to have Parkway Wine and Spirits, 3514 Clinton Parkway, and Mass Beverage, 3131A Nieder Rd., signed the application within the month. Neighborhood Liquor, also known as Mom and Pop's Liquor, 1906 Massachusetts St., has already
signed up for the application.
Mike Myers, owner of Neighborhood Liquor, agreed to pay $215 per year for his liquor store's information to be accessible on the application.
"I don't do a whole lot of advertising and I thought that might be a way to bring in a few new people particularly people passing through town." Myers said.
Myers said the application would be more widely used around Thanksgiving time,when Franklin said the application would be available on iPhones.
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— Edited by Jonathan Hermes
Graphic by Kelly Stroda/KANSAN
KU alumnus develops smart phone application to guide users in quest for alcohol
Limits in health care bill passed by House anger liberals
POLITICS
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WASHINGTON - Abortion opponents in the Senate want tough restrictions in the health care overhaul bill, similar to the limits passed by the House this past weekend.
The issue could roil an already shaky Democratic effort to pass a health care bill by year's end for President Barack Obama.
Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska said Monday it's highly unlikely he would support a bill that doesn't clearly prohibit federal dollars from going to pay for abortions. His spokesman said Nelson is weighing options, including
offering an amendment similar to the one passed by the House.
The limits in the House bill have angered liberals, some of whom are now threatening to vote against health care legislation if the curbs stay in.
The House health care bill passed Saturday would:
- Require most Americans to purchase health insurance or pay a fine.
- Expand health care coverage to 36 million more people over the next decade.
- Require employers with payrolls above $500,000 to provide insurance to their employees or pay a fine.
- Prohibit insurance companies from denying coverage because of pre-existing medical conditions.
- End premium disparities between men and women.
- Impose a 5.4 percent income tax surcharge on income above $500,000 annually for individuals and above $1 million annually for households.
- Establish a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurers beginning in 2013.
Cost $1.2 trillion over 10 years.
Cut Medicare spending by more than $400 billion over 10 years.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Md. speaks during a news conference about health care Oct. 29 on Capitol Hill in Washington. The House passed a health care bill Saturday.
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